Source: The Guardian
“So here we are again, talking past one another on the subject of condoms, Aids and Africa. Tanya Gold says the pope’s got it all wrong. Giuseppe Caramazza defends the pontiff, under the headline “the condom is no cure for Aids in Africa”.
Let’s get some facts straight. Condoms prevent HIV. And if we prevent HIV, then we prevent Aids, without having to put millions into the bank accounts of pharmaceutical companies. Caramazza toes the papal line, implying that African countries with higher rates of condom use have higher rates of HIV, and that condoms therefore don’t work in preventing HIV. Well, more people use insecticide-treated bed nets in west Africa than they do in Britain, and west Africa has far higher rates of malaria. Proof, by Caramazza’s logic, that treated bed nets don’t work as protection against malaria.”
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